Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-20
2003-12-30
Trost, William (Department: 2683)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S418000, C455S420000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06671522
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The domain of the invention is radio communication systems with mobiles. More precisely, the invention relates to running an application (or at least a part of an application) by a terminal forming part of a mobile station.
In particular, but not exclusively, this mobile station may be included in a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), DCS 1800 (Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz), PCS 1900 (Personal Communication System), DECT (Digital European Cordless Telecommunications), or UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) type of radio communication system.
Conventionally, a mobile station comprises a terminal (or ME for “Mobile Equipment” according to the GSM terminology) cooperating with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM in the GSM terminology) or DAM “DECT Authentication Module” in the DECT terminology). It should be noted that the mobile station is sometimes also called a mobile radiotelephone or a portable telephone, depending on the system.
Furthermore, this invention is applicable to any type of mobile station, and particularly a mobile station that sends and/or receives voice and/or data. In the case of data transmission/reception, the terminal may be connected to a micro-computer (preferably a portable) that processes transmitted/received data.
In a known manner, in general the terminal can execute a large number of applications called “terminal applications” in the rest of the description. For example, the terminal can execute service applications (described in more detail below), message output applications (for example such as SMS editors, etc.).
Service applications, when they are executed, enable the terminal to benefit from the service (s) offered by a services server after communication has been setup between the terminal and the services server. These are particularly browsers, that enable the terminal to navigate within an Internet type computer network after a communication has been setup between the terminal and an access platform, or payment and/or booking and/or viewing applications, enabling the terminal to benefit from at least one payment and/or booking and/or viewing service offered by a services server, after a communication has been setup between the terminal and the services server.
At the present time, the decision to run an application (or at least part of an application) is always made in the terminal, either “automatically” by the terminal itself, or by the user by choosing a function (which may be proposed) This choice is usually offered to the user through a terminal main application, sometimes also called a “terminal menu” or “manufacturer's menu” that the user uses to choose a function among the set of functions available on the terminal. Obviously, the terminal manufacturer would like to propose the most extensive possible choice of functions in his “manufacturer's menu”, and designs his terminal with this purpose in mind.
For example, it is already possible with some mobile stations to access an Internet type computer network. In order to do this, the terminal must have a special key (Internet access key) that can be used to make the terminal start a browser (which is a specific terminal application). In the manufacturer's menu on this type of terminal, the User is prompted to choose the “Internet access” function by pressing on the “Internet access key”. The following procedure is used to access the worldwide Internet network; after the user has pressed the “Internet access key”, the terminal attempts to setup communication with an access platform; if this communication is successfully setup, the terminal starts the browser so that the terminal can browse the Internet network. In summary, in the mobile station, only the terminal is involved since the Internet access key that attempts to setup communication with the access platform which starts the browser is located on the terminal.
It is found that there are several disadvantages if the decision to run an application (or at least part of it) is always made in the terminal.
Firstly, this implies that the user is not completely free in the choice of its terminal, since it may or may not be possible to run a specific application from a particular terminal depending on the terminal (corresponding to whether or not a specific function is available).
For example, in the case mentioned above of the access to an Internet type computer network, the user must choose a terminal with an “Internet access key”. Also, regardless of the operator to which he has subscribed, the user is constrained in his access to the Internet type computer network by technical choices made by the manufacturer of his terminal. In particular, the user does not choose the number of the access platform, or information useful to the browser after it has been started, for example such as IP (Internet Protocol) type numbers, secret browser authentication keys and/or data encryption keys, short message service center (SMS Center) numbers, etc.
Furthermore, this implies a limitation in the number of functions offered by the “Operator application” (or “SIM application”, or “operator menu”). Remember that the “operator menu” is stored in the subscriber identification module and is executed by it. The various operators propose different “operator menus” to their subscribers through the subscriber identification module that they distribute and which are specific to them. Obviously, each operator attempts to offer a maximum number of functions within his “operator menu”. However, the operator menu can only propose functions that correspond to terminal applications that can be run by the terminal under the control of the subscriber identification module. Other functions (that correspond to terminal applications that can only be run by the terminal under the control of the terminal itself) cannot be included within the “manufacturer's menu” (already discussed above).
It should be noted that the same function (for example an Internet access function) may be proposed in the “operator” menu and in the “manufacturer” menu.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
One particular purpose of the invention is to overcome these various disadvantages in the state of the art.
More precisely, one of the objectives of this invention is to provide a process by which an application (or at least part of an application) can be run by a terminal under the control of a subscriber identification module.
Another purpose of the invention is to propose one or several additional functions within an “operator menu”, namely one or several functions that can be run by the terminal under the control of the subscriber identification module.
Another purpose of the invention is to provide this type of process by which a user can access the services server starting from any mobile station (in the sense that this mobile station is not necessarily provided with an Internet access key like that mentioned above). To the best knowledge of the inventor, at the moment no existing “operator menu” offers “access to a services server” (for example such as a “Internet access”) among the possible choices.
Another purpose of the invention is to provide a similar process enabling the user to access a services server using technical choices made by his operator (rather than by his terminal manufacturer).
An additional objective of the invention is to supply a similar process that is easy to use and inexpensive.
This various objectives, and others that will become clear later, are achieved according to the invention by means of a process by which the terminal runs at least part of a terminal application, under the control of a subscriber identification module cooperating with the said terminal, the said subscriber identification module and the said terminal being included within a mobile station included in a radio communication system, the said process comprising the following steps:
the subscriber identification module sends a command to the terminal, for the terminal to run at least part of a terminal application;
the terminal e
Kinney & Lange , P.A.
Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone
Trost William
Zewdu Meless
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